This Christmas was a very electric Christmas, necessitating the purchase of several sets of rechargeable batteries to keep the new favorite playthings going. Bear got a remote control 'Mater, Bug got a doll that does just about everything and even little L. E. Fant got a talking puppy dog. Only Mouse received something 100% fueled by imagination: an art set with an easel. The grandparents, who were responsible for all the new favorite possessions , were pleased.

Our electric bill? Not so.

Bug is quite the attentive mom. She sits by me and cares for this little baby as if it were, well, a baby. She even nurses her.

But check out the bag.

That is no store bought diaper bag. That is a genuine, mom-made present, crocheted on the couch while holding a sick infant.

And Bug did not leave my side the entire time I was working on it. It is her diaper bag. And this is her commentary:

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"A very nearly tea," as Milne describes it, "is one you have and forget about afterward." Pour yourself a cup and enjoy these snippets of my day I want to hold on to before they are forgotten amidst the busyness of homeschooling five children while moving to the country.